| Description | Printed minutes containing matters laid before Council, the Royal Society's governing body of Fellows, with records of decisions taken. Individual minutes are numbered.
Commencing with a list of Council members present: William Grylls Adams; Thomas Clifford Allbutt; Sir Robert Stawell Ball; Thomas George Bonney; John Cleland; Robert Bellamy Clifton; James Alfred Ewing; Michael Foster; Sir Edward Frankland; Alfred Bray Kempe; John Newport Langley; Joseph Larmor; Nevil Story Maskelyne; Raphael Meldola; Edward Bagnell Poulton; Arthur William Rucker; William James Russell; Dukinfield Henry Scott; Walter Frank Raphael Weldon; the Vice-President and Treasurer, Sir John Evans in the chair.
Among matters discussed or noted: minutes of the last meeting read and approved.
1. Deaths of John Carrick Moore and Professor Rudolph Leuckart.
2. Recommendation of the Committee of Papers from £70 from the Publication Fund to be devoted to two Philosophical Transactions papers.
3. Report of the Sectional Committee for Zoology, that Publication Fund grants should only be for definite publications, with an estimate of costs: Professor Lankester's original application had been withdrawn and Mr. Gardiner to be informed of these conditions.
4. £75 from the Puiblication Fund allocated to Professor Lankester for the cost of plates in Dr. Willey's memoirs for the Quarterly Journal of Microscopal Science.
5. Application from Mr. Adam Sedgwick for a grant in aid of publication of Proceedings of the London Committee of the International Congress of Zoology 1898, declined.
6. Donation Fund grants: £50 to Professor Ramsay for materials; £50 to Frederick G. Jackson for researches on the cause of scurvy; and £10 to assist Dr. Ruffini in researches into the anatomy of the nervous system.
7. Sectional Committee for Physics recommendation of Dr. W. J. Russell's paper on the action of certain metals on a photographic plate be selected as the Bakerian Lecture, delivered on 24 March.
8. Professor W. Pfeffer to be invited to deliver the Croonian Lecture on plant metabolism, after Professor Gamgee declined the lecture.
9. Letter from the Kew Observatory Committee on the proposed building of an electric tramway near to the Observatory and the need to modify the plan to prevent its detrimental impact; letter from President and Council addressed to the Office of Works and Board of Trade.
10. Report of the Soiree Committee on arrangments for the soirees and Anniversary Dinner, approved with the exception of the proposal for an additional diinner to be held in summer.
11. Dates for meetings of the Government Grant Boards and General Committee, administrative expenses for the Government Grant to be raised to £200 per annum.
12. Professor G. C. Foster reappointed to the governing body of Dulwich College.
13. Treasurer's report on the purchase of bonds for the Gassiot Trust and Fee Reduction Fund with a proposal to borrow £1,600 for the repair of the sea-wall at Mablethorpe.
14. Offer to purchase remaining copies of the Ledenfeld monograph on horny sponges; matter referred to the Sectional Committee for Zoology on the desirability of presenting copies of the report to organisations or individuals.
15. Letter from the President of the Royal Historical Society suggesting co-operation in celebrating the 1,000th anniversary of the death of King Alfred.
16. Procedure for voting in the selection of candidates for Fellowship discussed.
17. Report of the Catalogue of Scientific Papers Committee, recommending negotiations with Cambridge University Press for printing the supplementary catalogue for 1800-1883, completion of the catalogue to 1899, and subject-indexing. With a report by the Treasurer on funding and the costs of implementing the Committee's recommendations, full text entered into the minutes.
18. Leave granted to Dr. Launder Brunton for copies of two papers by himself and Dr. S. Delephine.
19. Extension of time for admission to the Fellowship granted to Sir H. E. Maxwell.
20. Leave granted for the copying of illustrations.
21. Bills for books, lithography and other expenses.
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